Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Richard Pieri writes: > On 9/11/2017 9:44 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> If you had the ability to future-proof your house (imagine open studs, >> so you could run anything you wanted), what would you run. Assume a max >> of 6 cables per drop? > > I wouldn't. Wires for data

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/12/2017 12:05 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > No, I'm pointing out that wires are better than Wifi by showing actual > capabilities. If you had a wired network then you'd have that capability > too. It's just a fact that wired networks are more capable than wireless. I do have a 1-Gig wired

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/12/2017 1:19 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > I'm glad to hear there's someone even slower to adopt real broadband > than I was. I have real broadband: FiOS, 50/50Mbps. Had it since it became available in my neighborhood. It's just that the slowest WiFi devices I have are 802.11g. The others are

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread grg
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:52:36AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > I know all that -- I was asking for what would be "beyond CAT6a". It > sounds like maybe fiber, but I think I've been convinced that I wont > need it, at least not to each drop. The literal answer is cat.8 for 40GBASE-T. RJ45,

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Kent, Kent Borg writes: > Two suggestions. > > Short term: Look at your current needs and extrapolate from > there. Ethernet cables can be used for unrelated low-voltage signaling > or power, too. (Thermostat, for example. Or power to gizmos that > normally require a wallwart

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
> Indeed. I'm thinking not just IP, but also possibly HDBaseT. I'm going > to run separate Cat5e for my PoE security cameras (which only need 100mbps). If you're doing it yourself the wire cost matters. If somebody else is doing it, the wire cost is insignificant compared to the labor cost so

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/12/2017 10:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > I am sorry, but I completely disagree. Even with modern Wifi, I can get > much better throughput using physical wires if for no other reason than > each link can be switched and therefore isn't "shared". With Wifi, > every device is sharing the

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Rich, On Tue, September 12, 2017 11:42 am, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/12/2017 10:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> I am sorry, but I completely disagree. Even with modern Wifi, I can get >> much better throughput using physical wires if for no other reason than >> each link can be switched and

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-12 Thread Bill Ricker
I'm hoping to build a retirement house in the next few years so this is a good think exercise for me too. I think we're pretty much agreed that any wire we install today will be outmoded within a decade. Best fibre available, maybe not but multiplexing all future services over a single strand may